QuickLinks For 2007-10-03

• Getty Images Now Selling Music Tracks:
  What you might not have know is that Soundtrack has been in use by PumpAudio since before their purchase by Getty.
  Steven Finch, CEO of competitor RouteNote, in a TechCrunch comment.

• All Eyes on Idée - Visual Search: Part 1:
  They may not have entierly conquered all media searching yet, but they are on their way. Today their compute cluster includes over 300 processors and more than 40 terabytes of storage.
  
  Photo:
  Paul Bloore@home,
  further "scaling a computationally complex business".
  
  
  Jevon MacDonald/The Life/Death of Canadian Startups, in a friendly article.

• The NYT is for free now, the WSJ is on the way, the FT still doesn´t get it, and
  Japan´s papers join forces to combat Internet:
  
  Japan´s two largest newspapers and its biggest business paper announced Monday they would co-operate more closely on distribution and create a joint Web site, in an attempt to attract younger readers to subscribe to their print editions.
  
  Japan has one of the highest rates of newspaper readership in the world. These three dailies - the Yomiuri, the Asahi and the Nikkei - are all privately-owned and have a combined circulation of over 21 million. The Yomiuri alone sells more than 10 million copies, and is ranked as the highest-circulation paper in the world.
  
  According to Ryoki Sugita, chief executive of the business-oriented Nikkei, access to the new Web site would be "free in principle", while revenue would be generated through advertisements.
  
  Erina Lin/SFNblog.